CVE-2025-69198 Pterodactyl's improper resource locking allows raced queries to create more resources than alloted
Attackers can exploit a race condition to bypass resource limits, creating excessive databases or backups and denying resources to other users.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-69198?
CVE-2025-69198 is a medium-severity vulnerability in pterodactyl panel, published on 19 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. Pterodactyl implements rate limits that are applied to the total number of resources (e.g. databases, port allocations, or backups) that can exist for an individual server. These resource limits are applied on a per-server basis, and validated during the request cycle. However, in versions prior to 1.12.0, it is possible for a malicious user to send a massive volume of requests at the same time that would create more resources than the server is allotted. This is because the validation occurs early in the request cycle and does not lock the target resource while it is processing. As a result sending a large volume of requests at the same time would lead all of those requests to validate as not using any of the target resources, and then all creating the resources at the same time. As a result a server would be able to create more databases, allocations, or backups than configured. A malicious user is able to deny resources to other users on the system, and may be able to excessively consume the limited allocations for a node, or fill up backup space faster than is allowed by the system. Version 1.12.0 fixes the issue.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-69198?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including pterodactyl/panel. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
pterodactyl/panel Packagist | All versions | 1.12.0 |
pterodactyl/panel Packagist | All versions | 1.12.0 |
Products include Pterodactyl Panel.
How do I fix CVE-2025-69198?
Upgrade pterodactyl/panel to 1.12.0 or later.
Is CVE-2025-69198 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-69198 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in pterodactyl panel
- CVE-2026-26016 Pterodactyl Panel Allows Cross-Node Server Configuration Disclosure via Remote API Missing Authorization
- CVE-2021-41129 Authentication bypass in Pterodactyl
- CVE-2025-68954 Pterodactyl does not revoke SFTP access when server is deleted or permissions reduced
- CVE-2019-1020002 Pterodactyl vulnerable to 2FA Sniffing
- CVE-2025-69197 Pterodactyl TOTPs can be reused during validity window
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jw2v-cq5x-q68g.